Schedule of press briefings in Ukraine crisis media center on Friday, May 16, 2014

11:00 Ivan Šimonović, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights

Armen Harutyunyan, Head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine

12:00 Press Briefing Dedicated to the Start of the Conference “Ukraine: Thinking Together”

Timothy Snyder, Historian, Professor of History at Yale University, Permanent Fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna

Leon Wieseltier, Writer, Literal Editor of the New Republic Magazine

Jerzy Pomianowski, Executive Director of the European Endowment for Democracy

13:00 Yegor Sobolev, Head of the Lustration Committee of Ukraine

14:00 Berel Rodal, chairman of the Advisory Board, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter;

Adrian Karatnycky, member of the board of directors, and co-director, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter

15:30 Carl Bildt, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden

16:15 Ira Forman, US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism